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1. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
4. Distinctive and stylish elegance.
8. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
11. 300 to 3000 megahertz.
12. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
13. An ugly evil-looking old woman.
14. Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.
16. A soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group.
17. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
18. A soft white precious univalent metallic element having the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal.
19. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
21. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
22. Mentally or physically infirm with age.
26. The syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization.
27. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
31. A software system that facilitates the creation and maintenance and use of an electronic database.
33. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
35. (computer science) A kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the cpu chip.
36. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
38. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
44. An implement used to propel or steer a boat.
48. The law enforcement agency in the Justice Department.
49. (informal) Of the highest quality.
50. A collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn.
51. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
52. A decree that prohibits something.
53. Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise.
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1. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.
2. A Bantu language spoken by the Chaga people in northern Tanzania.
3. (nautical, aeronautical) Situated at or toward the stern or tail.
4. A person forced to flee from home or country.
5. An associate degree in applied science.
6. Lean end of the neck.
7. (astronomy) The angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing.
8. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
9. A small cake leavened with yeast.
10. Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.
15. A federal agency established to coordinate programs aimed at reducing pollution and protecting the environment.
20. A gonadotropic hormone that is secreted by the anterior pituitary.
23. A crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry.
24. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
25. Type genus of the Alcidae comprising solely the razorbill.
28. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
29. A chronic progressive nervous disorder involving loss of myelin sheath around certain nerve fibers.
30. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
32. An honorary degree in science.
34. A city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders.
37. A white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily.
39. Open-heart surgery in which the rib cage is opened and a section of a blood vessel is grafted from the aorta to the coronary artery to bypass the blocked section of the coronary artery and improve the blood supply to the heart.
40. An elaborate song for solo voice.
41. Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin.
42. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
43. An Arabic speaking person who lives in Arabia or North Africa.
45. The bill in a restaurant.
46. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
47. At a great distance in time or space or degree.
48. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
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